(n.) According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Project grants to selected State and local agencies amounted to about $.8 billion.
(2) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(3) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(4) Its struggling mobile phone business resulted in a net loss of 136 billion yen for the three months to September, although that figure was smaller than analysts had predicted.
(5) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
(6) The deal will also be scrutinised to see if its claims of new billions to jump start world economies prove to be inflated.
(7) Nick Nuttall, a spokesman for UNEP, said the latest findings should encourage more governments to follow moves by some politicians to invest billions of dollars in clean energy and efficiency as a way of curbing greenhouse gases.
(8) On the other hand, if the world population grew to 1-2 billion fertile women, the million tons of contraceptive steroids needed would require an inexpensive total synthesis.
(9) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
(10) The US farm bill is a multi-billion dollar piece of legislation that controls the federal government's spending on farm subsidies, food for the domestic poor, agriculture conservation programmes, and overseas food aid , among other things.
(11) And the number has risen sharply since 1980, with nearly 1 billion people added to the ranks of the poor over the past 35 years.
(12) The total earnings gap between the 2 groups was +17.6 billion (1986 dollars).
(13) • Mubarak becomes a major mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace process, remaining a consistent US ally bolstered by billions of dollars in American aid.
(14) Many alternative, more reliable sources of public finance are out there – a tax on financial transactions would provide billions of dollars of new money for developing countries to tackle climate change head on."
(15) Sir Ken Morrison, supermarkets Jersey trusts protect the billion-pound wealth of the 83-year-old Bradford-born Morrisons supermarket founder and a large number of his family members.
(16) It forecasts the pressure on forests will increase as world population grows by more than 2.5 billion people in the next 40 years.
(17) This would deplete the budget by a further $3.53 billion over the same four-year period," his report says.
(18) The world's population was 5.2 billion in 1990, which is increasing at an annual rate of 90 million, mainly in the developing countries.
(19) Ukraine has said it needs $35 billion over the next two years to stave off bankruptcy.
(20) The U.S. also needs significant regulatory and financial support, including "billions in loan guarantees," the report said.
Gazillion
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(1) Fielder just looks far from his best October 20, 2013 It would be interesting to see how these League Championship Series would have gone had Hanley Ramirez been fully healthy for the Dodgers and Miguel Cabrera wasn't playing through a gazillion trillion injuries.
(2) Gazillions, is the somewhat sobering answer – not that a strong box office should insulate the genre against people being allowed to wonder what it's doing with its life.
(3) Since the prime minister has not been able to solve our problems and since NHS staff have tried so, so hard and been on our best behaviour all year, this is what is on our Christmas list: 10,000 elves trained in healthcare in the UK or abroad to fill empty jobs; about a gazillion doses of antibiotics; around £5bn as a bailout; stopping people from coming to A&E or calling an ambulance without a real emergency; ears for politicians so that they can listen to us; 20,000 more hospital beds (not trolleys); people to say thank you to our staff.
(4) Showrunner Kevin "Scream" Williamson made his name subverting horror–film cliches, but peel away the gazillion cliches here and all you're left with is Criminal Minds offcuts and bits of old CSI.
(5) But there is a bigger picture to the new-found familiarity between gazillion-record-selling black American artists with Africa.
(6) Adoptee activists, like Kevin Vollmers, of Land of Gazillions Adoptees, have spent the past two months strategizing media plans and gaining political backing to propose a stand-alone bill that would patch the age gap.
(7) And there are, of course, gazillions of other charities doing excellent work.
(8) I have a gazillion digital photos – all in complete disarray.
(9) And you can't blame them for trying; they've spent a gazillion groats on it.
(10) Leading the league with a gazillion games in hand on everybody, they’d gone on a winning run that had seen Mauro Rosales and Eddie Johnson combining repeatedly for vital set piece goals.
(11) If, on the other hand, I communicate with you via Skype, for a voice call, or Viber, or I send you a message on Whatsapp or Wickr or Threema or Signal or Telegram – there’s a gazillion of them – or indeed if we have a Facetime call, then all that the telco can see insofar as it can see anything is that my device has had a connection with, say, the Skype server or the Whatsapp server … it doesn’t see anything happen with you … It’s important I think for journalists to remember.” Speers asked Turnbull whether that meant terrorists and child sex offenders would also be able to get around the new data retention laws.